First Interview (Investigator 2)

I received an e-mail from Investigator 1 during the week of March 8 requesting my assistance in interviewing two witnesses to an event that allegedly occurred in July of 1995. The reason for the delay in reporting the sighting was due to the fear of ridicule and the lack of knowledge as to where and to whom the event could be reported. The couple had recently watched a television interview with Investigator 1 and decided to contact him with their story.

We traveled to the home of the witnesses, a married couple in their mid 30's, in Cheshire CT on Sunday March 21, 1999. We arrived and began our separate interviews of the couple at 1230 hours. What follows is the initial report of my interview with the wife, age 35 who is employed as an emergency room nurse.

After a day of fishing in a pond or quarry past the end of Valley Road in Harwinton, Connecticut, the husband and wife left because they were "all fished out", hiked a fair distance back to their pick-up truck, and began the 30 minute drive home. She remembers it to be approximately 2 PM when they finally reached the truck, and that it was a hot July day in 1995 with a mixture of sun and clouds. They began their trip home driving north on Valley Road from the spot where the vehicle was parked at the intersection of Wildcat Hill Road. The windows were down because it was hot and it took some time for the air conditioning in the truck to begin to function.

After travelling north on Valley Road at approximately 25 miles per hour, for just over one half mile (at a point where the view to the north and north east becomes unobstructed by trees and where a large house on a hill to the right comes into view), both people, while looking through the windshield of the truck, observed an object moving from left to right. The object was moving slowly, made no sound, and was moving just above the trees.

The wife describes it as just clearing the trees at the top of the nearest hill just beyond (north of) the house. She described the size as much larger than the width of the road with either end of it extending over the trees on either side of it (her subsequent drawing indicates that it was twice the width of the road or approximately 60 feet). Wife said she observed the object for 5 to 6 seconds, all the while exclaiming to, and talking back and forth with her husband, until it disappeared over the trees out the right window (to the east) of the truck.

She estimated the size as 16 inches at arm's length [however, the on-site measured value was about 7 inches at 2 feet, Investigator 1], the color as a flat/dull silvery-grey-metalic that neither reflected sunlight nor any clouds (she selected metal sample "A" as the closest to matching the object). She does not remember the object casting a shadow.

The shape was an oval/disk with a rounded bump on top and 7 or 8 shiny, black, mirror-like panels placed horizontally around the middle just at and above the centerline. These panels were curved as if to conform to the curvature of the object, and were separated by darker black lines or narrow areas, which clearly distinguished them from one another. She selected shape [Haines Shape Classification] M-16 (inverted) with rounded edges as the closest to what she actually observed.

After this observation they continued north for another half mile, then turned west onto Campville Road, the connecting road to Route 8. After another half mile driving up the other side of the valley from where they first sighted the object, they passed by a house on their left. There was an outdoor gathering of some sort and several people were looking skyward and pointing to the sky in the area from where the witnesses had just come.

Subjective Questions

After the "official" portion of the interview I asked her several questions.

Q: Are you religious?

A: Yes, a devout, practicing Catholic.

Q: How did you feel when you saw this object, and why did you refrain from talking about it with your husband for more than a year after it occurred?

A: "I was raised as a Catholic and I know it says in Ezekiel… but I just never believed in any of this stuff and it really freaked me out and I didn't want to talk about it. If God wanted us to know about it he'd let us know about it…freaked me out and for a few years and up until a year ago I wished to God that I'd never, ever seen it. I really mean it because it threw me into a tailspin".

Q: Are you sad or disappointed that you saw it now?

A: "I would have preferred that I wish that I had never seen it…there is a certain belief system that I have and I would prefer not to have been one of the ones to have seen something".

Q: Would you like us to keep you appraised if the progress of our investigation and provide you with a copy of the final report?

A: "No. Finally I was able to tell someone about this and now it is off my chest and I can be done with it. It's your problem now and I can forget about it".

[Bruce later mentioned a comment from the wife, where she stated that she had a friend who had told her of a sighting, and her response had been angry - "why are you lying to me?" The wife was apparently quite chagrined to now have such and experience and realize that her friend had been unjustly accused.]

Initial Conclusions

Based on my initial interview with this witness, there is little doubt that she and her husband experienced something on that day in July of 1995. I made several attempts to trip her and gave her ample opportunity to contradict herself and she passed on all counts. I found her testimony consistent and her demeanor credible. Especially telling were her answers to my questions after the "official" interview had been completed. With tape recorder still running, we settled back into an informal conversation that revealed, in no uncertain terms, that she was not only confused by the event, but also wished that it had never happened.